Our Stories

Sando Mensah, 41 and mother of six in the town of Handii, Bong County in Liberia, used to burn charcoal to augment her paltry income. In the process of making the charcoal, Sando and other charcoal makers felled thousands of trees and burnt forests, with the attendant environmental consequences. Now this has changed, she is no longer burning charcoal but engaged in beekeeping as an alternative source of income.

Women of Liberia are optimistic that they have a perfect opportunity to make their voices heard when a referendum on constitutional reform is held in 2016 and may most likely strive to clinch at least fifty percent (50%) of the seventy-three seats in the National Legislative come 2017 general and presidential elections.

The coastal project supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with funds from the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) which is managed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is very critical to the residents of Buchanan in Grand Bassa County and the people of Liberia.